# 2012–13 Sporting de Gijón season

The 2012–13 Sporting de Gijón season was the first season that the club played in Segunda División after the relegation from the highest tier of football in Spain, La Liga.

## Players
### Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ESP | Juan Pablo |
| 2 | DF | ESP | Luis Hernández |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Pedro Orfila |
| 4 | MF | ESP | Mandi |
| 5 | MF | ESP | Ricardo León |
| 7 | MF | ESP | Javier Casquero |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Juan Muñiz |
| 9 | FW | CRO | Mate Bilić |
| 10 | FW | ARG | Gastón Sangoy |
| 11 | MF | ESP | Alberto Lora |
| 12 | DF | FRA | Grégory Arnolin |
| 13 | GK | ESP | Raúl Domínguez |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | DF | ESP | Iván Hernández |
| 15 | DF | ESP | Roberto Canella (captain) |
| 16 | DF | COL | Bernardo Espinosa |
| 17 | DF | ESP | Landeira |
| 18 | FW | ESP | David Rodríguez |
| 19 | MF | ESP | Carmona |
| 20 | DF | ESP | Borja López |
| 21 | MF | ESP | Nacho Cases |
| 22 | MF | GNB | Formose Mendy |
| 23 | MF | ESP | Cristian Bustos |
| 24 | FW | ARG | Óscar Trejo |
| 25 | GK | ESP | Iván Cuéllar |
* Borja López started the season with the number 31, and Luis Hernández with the number 28.

### Youth system

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 26 | DF | ESP | Álex Menéndez |
| 27 | MF | ESP | Álex Barrera |
| 29 | FW | ESP | Miguel Ángel Guerrero |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 32 | MF | ESP | Santi Jara |
| 33 | FW | MLI | Adama Touré |

### Squad changes
#### In

| P | Name | From | Type | Transfer Window |
| DF | Sergio | CA Osasuna | Free agent | Summer |
| MF | Mandi | Real Madrid Castilla | Transfer | Summer |
| FW | Guerrero | Reserve team | Promoted | Summer |
| DF | Marcos Landeira | Reserve team | Promoted | Summer |
| MF | Carlos Carmona | FC Barcelona B | Free agent | Summer |
| FW | Hugo Vieira | Benfica | Loan | Summer |
| FW | David Rodríguez | Celta de Vigo | Loan | Summer |
| MF | Formose Mendy | Reserve team | Promoted | Summer |
| DF | Bernardo | Sevilla | Loan | Winter 2012–13 |
| MF | Cristian Bustos | Sevilla | Loan | Winter 2012–13 |
| DF | Luis Hernández | Reserve team | Promoted | Winter 2012–13 |
| DF | Borja López | Reserve team | Promoted | Winter 2012–13 |
| MF | Javier Casquero | Almería | Free agent | Winter 2012–13 |

#### Out

| P | Name | To | Type | Transfer window |
| FW | David Barral | Orduspor | Transfer | Summer |
| MF | Alberto Rivera | Elche | Free agent | Summer |
| MF | Sebastián Eguren | Libertad | Mutual consent | Summer |
| DF | Damián Suárez | Elche | Mutual consent | Summer |
| DF | Alberto Botía | Sevilla | Transfer | Summer |
| MF | Ayoze | | Released | Summer |
| MF | Luis Morán | | Released | Summer |
| DF | Sergio | | Retired | October 2012 |
| FW | Hugo Vieira | Benfica | Mutual consent | Winter 2012–13 |
| MF | Miguel de las Cuevas | Osasuna | Loan | Winter 2012–13 |
| MF | Carmelo | Buriram United | Mutual consent | February 2013 |

## Technical staff

| Position | Staff |
| Manager | José Ramón Sandoval |
| Assistant Manager | Ismael Martínez |
| Goalkeeping Coach | Sergio Sánchez |
| Physical Fitness Coach | Pablo Muñiz |
| Physical Fitness Coach | Nacho Sancho |
| Director of Football | Raúl Lozano |
| Delegate | Quini |
| Academy Director | José María M. Acebal |
| Head Coach Reserve Team | Abelardo Fernández |
Last updated: October 2012 Source: Sporting de Gijón Official Website

### Managerial changes

| Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| Manolo Sánchez | Sacked | 18 October 2012 | José Ramón Sandoval | 18 October 2012 | 17th |

## Competitions
### Segunda División
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 8 | Real Madrid Castilla | 42 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 80 | 62 | +18 | 59 |
| 9 | Barcelona B | 42 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 76 | 71 | +5 | 57 |
| 10 | Sporting Gijón | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 60 | 53 | +7 | 56 |
| 11 | Lugo | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 46 | 54 | −8 | 56 |
| 12 | Numancia | 42 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 53 | 55 | −2 | 55 |
* 1 2 SPG 1–1 LUG; LUG 1–2 SPG

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: June 8, 2013. Source: Competitive matches

#### Positions by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | D | D | L | W | L | W | L | W | W | D | L | L | D | D | D | W | W | D | D | D | D | L | W | L | W | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | L | L | L | W | W | L | D | L |
| Position | 21 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 |

#### Matches
### Copa del Rey
#### Matches
## Squad statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Segunda División | Segunda División | Copa del Rey | Copa del Rey |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ESP | Juan Pablo | 20 | 0 | 18+2 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ESP | Luis Hernández | 21 | 0 | 17+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Pedro Orfila | 11 | 0 | 7+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | ESP | Mandi | 26 | 1 | 21+3 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | ESP | Ricardo León | 10 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ESP | Carmelo | 6 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ESP | Javier Casquero | 9 | 2 | 6+3 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | POR | Hugo Vieira | 4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Juan Muñiz | 22 | 3 | 10+8 | 3 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | CRO | Mate Bilić | 33 | 11 | 20+12 | 11 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | ARG | Gastón Sangoy | 39 | 11 | 25+10 | 8 | 3+1 | 3 |
| 11 | MF | ESP | Alberto Lora | 32 | 0 | 26+4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | FRA | Grégory Arnolin | 18 | 0 | 13+1 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | ESP | Raúl Domínguez | 1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | ESP | Iván Hernández | 28 | 1 | 26+0 | 1 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ESP | Roberto Canella | 37 | 2 | 35+0 | 2 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | COL | Bernardo Espinosa | 22 | 2 | 22+0 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ESP | Marcos Landeira | 7 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | ESP | David Rodríguez | 38 | 12 | 28+9 | 12 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | ESP | Carlos Carmona | 32 | 5 | 13+17 | 5 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | ESP | Borja López | 21 | 0 | 19+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ESP | Miguel de las Cuevas | 14 | 1 | 5+7 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | ESP | Nacho Cases | 33 | 3 | 30+2 | 2 | 1+0 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | GNB | Formose Mendy | 15 | 0 | 2+11 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | ESP | Cristian Bustos | 16 | 0 | 16+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ESP | Sergio Fernández | 1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | ARG | Óscar Trejo | 42 | 6 | 38+0 | 5 | 2+2 | 1 |
| 25 | GK | ESP | Iván Cuéllar | 27 | 0 | 23+0 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | ESP | Álex Menéndez | 6 | 0 | 4+0 | 0 | 2+0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | ESP | Álex Barrera | 15 | 0 | 7+5 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | ESP | Miguel Ángel Guerrero | 17 | 2 | 9+8 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | ESP | Santi Jara | 16 | 3 | 14+1 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | MLI | Adama Touré | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |

### Disciplinary record

| N | P | Name | 2ª División | 2ª División | 2ª División | Copa del Rey | Total | Total | Total | Notes |
| 24 | FW | Óscar Trejo | 8 | | 1 | 3 | 11 | | 1 | |
| 25 | GK | Iván Cuéllar | 4 | | 1 | | 4 | | 1 | 2 times captain |
| 22 | MF | Formose Mendy | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | |
| 12 | DF | Grégory Arnolin | 8 | 2 | | 1 | 9 | 2 | | |
| 14 | DF | Iván Hernández | 15 | 1 | | 1 | 16 | 1 | | 27 times captain |
| 4 | MF | Mandi | 11 | 1 | | | 11 | 1 | | |
| 11 | MF | Alberto Lora | 8 | 1 | | | 8 | 1 | | 6 times captain |
| 26 | MF | Álex Barrera | 3 | 1 | | | 3 | 1 | | |
| 1 | GK | Juan Pablo | 2 | 1 | | | 2 | 1 | | 5 times captain |
| 10 | FW | Gastón Sangoy | 12 | | | | 12 | | | |
| 20 | FW | Borja López | 11 | | | | 11 | | | |
| 16 | DF | Bernardo | 10 | | | | 10 | | | |
| 2 | DF | Luis Hernández | 8 | | | 1 | 9 | | | |
| 9 | FW | Mate Bilić | 8 | | | | 8 | | | |
| 21 | MF | Nacho Cases | 8 | | | | 8 | | | |
| 15 | DF | Roberto Canella | 7 | | | | 7 | | | 6 times captain |
| 23 | FW | Cristian Bustos | 6 | | | | 6 | | | |
| 19 | MF | Carlos Carmona | 4 | | | | 4 | | | |
| 5 | MF | Ricardo León | 2 | | | 1 | 3 | | | |
| 7 | MF | Javier Casquero | 3 | | | | 3 | | | |
| 8 | MF | Juan Muñiz | 3 | | | | 3 | | | |
| 3 | DF | Pedro Orfila | 2 | | | | 2 | | | |
| 17 | DF | Marcos Landeira | 2 | | | | 2 | | | |
| 18 | FW | David Rodríguez | 2 | | | | 2 | | | |
| 7 | FW | Hugo Vieira | 1 | | | | 1 | | | |
| 20 | MF | Miguel de las Cuevas | 1 | | | | 1 | | | |
| 23 | FW | Sergio Fernández | 1 | | | | 1 | | | |
| 26 | DF | Álex Menéndez | 1 | | | | 1 | | | |
| 29 | FW | Miguel Ángel Guerrero | 1 | | | | 1 | | | |
| 32 | FW | Santi Jara | 1 | | | | 1 | | | |
| 6 | MF | Carmelo | | | | | | | | |
| 13 | GK | Raúl Domínguez | | | | | | | | |
| 33 | FW | Adama Touré | | | | | | | | |
Last updated: 11 March 2013 Source: Competitive matches and RFEF.es Ordered by , and = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.